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Translations: encounters with popular film and academic discourse
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Abstract This article examines the relationship between informal knowledge of popular film and its study in higher education. Through interviews, it explores the significance people give to their encounters with films and with critical discourses upon them. The interviewees' class and gender positions variou... view more
This article examines the relationship between informal knowledge of popular film and its study in higher education. Through interviews, it explores the significance people give to their encounters with films and with critical discourses upon them. The interviewees' class and gender positions variously constrain or motivate their educational aspirations and thus complicate the hope that film and media studies can successfully address 'non-traditional' students. How students watch films and how their knowledge of them is negotiated within families, among friends and at work should be a more central concern. In higher education, students may be more effectively supported and encouraged where some effort is made to engage with the cultures of reception in which they are located. To enable students to 'translate' between common sense and academic modes of discourse on film requires explicit reflection on the differences between fans and casual viewers on the one hand, and academically motivated viewers on the other.... view less
Keywords
gender
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Other Media
Free Keywords
academic discourse; class; common sense; identity; popular film
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 23-43
Journal
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 (2005) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405049490
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)